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[News] U.S. Defense Department Moves to More GNU/Linux, UK High Schools TOo

  • Subject: [News] U.S. Defense Department Moves to More GNU/Linux, UK High Schools TOo
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:49:54 +0000
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MOTSU awards deal for Linux migration

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| Tideworks Technology has been selected to 
| provide the U.S. Defense Department's Military 
| Ocean Terminal Sunny Point with a terminal 
| upgrade.
| 
| U.S. company Tideworks was awarded a contract 
| from North Carolina-based Military Ocean 
| Terminal Sunny Point, or MOTSU. The award 
| follows a successful 2006 contract for a 
| customized information technology solution.
`----

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2009/12/16/MOTSU-awards-deal-for-Linux-migration/UPI-54921260996400/

Linux penetrates high schools, healthcare 

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| UK government policy on open standards 
| software is being to pay off.
| 
| According to Angela Smith, minister of state 
| in the UK cabinet office, the Open Standards 
| and Re-Use action plan was published in 
| February 2009 as government policy to ensure 
| value for money for taxpayers.
| 
| And the Office of Government Commerce (OCG) is 
| developing guidance for the procurement of 
| open source software, working with departments 
| and local authorities that have already 
| implemented open source apps to share methods, 
| including procurement.
`----

http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/45109-linux-penetrates-high-schools-healthcare


Recent:

Recent:The Blue Screen of Megadeath?

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| Around this time last year, we reported on the U.S. Army's
| efforts to build a state-of-the-art â state-of-the-future,
| really â system to control everything from communication to
| unmanned drones to missile launches, and to use Linux to do
| it. The project's designers were quoted as specifically
| saying they rejected Windows because they didn't want to be
| beholden to Microsoft â apparently the thought of having
| missiles bricked by Windows Genuine Advantage mid-combat
| didn't go over so well. Being
|
| [...]
|
| We can't speak for anyone else, but the thought that
| somewhere floating out there are two hundred nuclear
| warheads under the control of Windows XP scares the living
| daylights out of us. If anyone needs us, we'll be building
| a bunker in the back yard before one of the boom-boom boats
| throws a blue screen of death and blows us all to kingdom
| come.
`----

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/blue-screen-megadeath


âBattle Commandâ Summits

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3329623&C=america


Convincing the Military to Embrace Open Source

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60965.html


The Complex Crux Of Wireless Warfare

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303695.html


Related:

Conference Highlights Open Technology Adoption within Defense and
Intelligence Systems

http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/index.php?duty=Show&id=17056&trv=1


Army Seeks to Catalyze Open Source Intelligence

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/01/army_seeks_to_catalyze_open_so.html


A Network Appliance Platform for Linux Applications at the US
Department of Defense

http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/012207-dod-linux.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news


High-integrity software is key topic at 2007 Military Technologies
Conference

http://mae.pennnet.com/display_article/285223/32/NEWS/none/none/High-integrity-software-is-key-topic-at-2007-Military-Technologies-Conference/


Department of Defense Releases Open Technology Development Roadmap

http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/233257&from=rss
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